CTO (Chronic total occlusion)

In this session, you will learn how to adopt the right method when bleeding challenges guidelines, retrieve a fractured driveshaft tip of orbital atherectomy system by micro basket, guide catheter delamination during left main stenting after TAVI, and much more!

Thanks to this session, learn how to recanalize a chronic total occlusion of the right coronary artery, how IVUS can facilitate and guide PCI to ostial left circumflex CTO, how hi-tech devices are also needed in calcified artery occlusions, and even more!

The proposed manuscript is an intriguing sub-analysis from the recent SYNTAX Extended Survival (SYNTAXES) study, where the Synergy Between PCI With Taxus and Cardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) was investigated.

Population ageing is increasing. Therefore extensive coronary artery calcification is a frequent finding and results in complex coronary interventions. Despite the improvement of stent- and balloon- profile, delivery can be challenging due to vessel tortuosity and calcified plaque... Discover the tips and solutions proposed by Lucas...

Consult this case study by I. Cigalini on how to manage LAD type III perforation with persistant leak: a 78-year-old female with hypertension.

Editors M. Sabaté and S. Brugaletta share how the additional live cases, videos and media content provide crystal clear tips and tricks on new procedures.

Consult this complications case from EuroPCR 2018 by M. Pennacchi from the San Giovanni Evangelista Hospital, Tivoli - Italy if you want to learn how to manage a Type III coronary perforation together with sudden cardiac tamponade.